(Decatur County, TN) The two men indicted for the disappearance and presumed murder of Holly Bobo are in court.

Zach Adams and Jason Autry are both charged with felony first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping.

Autry, who was indicted yesterday, told the judge, “I’m innocent of these charges. Right hand to God I’m innocent”

Autry also told the judge the handcuffs were cutting off blood to his hands and he cannot afford an attorney.

The court entered a ‘not guilty’ plea for Autry, since he seemed unsure about the charges he faces.

Autry said he is not sure his family can afford a private attorney at which time the judge urged him to do his best, “I don’t have to tell you these are very serious charges. I urge you to secure counsel.”

Autry, who is already in jail for drug charges, will be back in court June 4 at 1 p.m.

Zach Adams entered a not guilty plea on a coercion of a witness charge.

Adams reportedly sent a threat to his brother warning him not to talk with investigators.

Adams previously entered a not guilty plea to the murder and kidnapping charges.

An attorney for Adams said he has been in isolation in the Chester County Jail without access to pencil or paper which the attorney said he needs to provide notes to his attorney.

Adams will also be back in court June 4.

We have learned a third man, Shane Kyle Austin, will soon be indicted.

Austin was initially given but prosecutors say he violated the deal but not telling the truth.

The deal was to prevent him for being charged, “In exchange for the total cooperation of Shayne Kyle Austin, the State agrees to grant him immunity for all charges arising out of the disposal, destruction, burial and/or concealment of Holly Bobo’s deceased body, conditioned upon him assisting us in recovering the body of Holly Bobo.”

Adams was arraigned on the newest charge of coercion of a witness, which he entered a not guilty plea. Adams reportedly asked an unnamed inmate to - "Tell my brother he is the one who started this (expletive) and if he don't shut his mouth he will be in the hole beside her."

During the arraignment, his legal counsel brought up multiple concerns, including the fact that her client could not review the evidence in his case. She suggested that she give Adams a computer. The judge that this would be a concern taken up at the next hearing.

Adams is due back in court on June 4, at the same time Autry will appear .

Adams legal counsel also claimed he cannot afford to retain his counsel and was declared indigent. He was also ordered by the judge to appear in each subsequent court appearance.

"I can look back over the past 10 years and there were no steps wasted, and there are no regrets,'' she said. "I did all I knew to do and I think that gives me greater peace now." "I've lived every parent's worst nightmare and I'm the parent that nobody wants to be," she said.

(WMC) - The two men charged in connection to the 2011 disappearance of nursing student Holly Bobo both appeared in court Wednesday at 1 p.m.

First to appear was Jason W. Autry, who heard the charges against him and entered a plea. The court entered a "not guilty" plea on his behalf. Afterward, Autry told the judge he is innocent of those charges.

More than once, Autry asked the judge to allow someone to uncuff him because his "hands are turning purple" and he hasn't "been able to feel them since he left Nashville."

The judge disregarded Autry's request and continued on with the hearing.

Before leaving the courtroom, Autry declared his innocence once again.

"I want to say again, I'm innocent of these charges," he said to the judge. "Hand before God, I'm innocent, sir."

Autry is due back in court on June 4 at 1 p.m. for a hearing to determine whether he can obtain private counsel.

Zachary Adams appeared in front of the judge after a short recess. This time, he had an attorney with him who entered a "not guilty" plea on his behalf on the coercion of a witness charge.

The prosecutor was asked to furnish "everything she can" to his attorney in 60 days. The judge said he will not take up anything that has to do with Adams' case without him being present in court.

Adams' attorney also suggested providing her client with paper and pencil, or moving him to a facility that allows such resources, so that he can write down his thoughts as she prepares his defense. That matter, along with the other questions she had for the judge, will be addressed in the future.

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -A third name has emerged in the investigation into Holly Bobo's disappearance. Shayne Austin will be indicted, according to the district attorney, and Austin's attorney has filed suit to block an arrest.At the same time, a friend of Bobo's says she saw a man who looked a lot like Austin stalking them days before Bobo went missing.

Candace Wood wonders now if she was witness to the beginning of the awful events. Her story is simple and chilling now that we know so much more.

Wood was on a double-date with Bobo, her childhood friend, at the Decatur County coon hunt in 2011.

As you can imagine, it was crowded, but something made Wood look behind her - you know how you feel staring eyes.

"He had this look like he was staring at us. I had never seen this guy before," Wood said. "He just kept staring at us. He had his phone in his ear. He would look down and up, look down and up, and look back four or five times. The fourth or fifth time I got that eerie feeling, that creepy feeling he was looking at me or Holly."

Four days later, Bobo was abducted by a man in camouflage, and that detail stopped Wood cold because of the man she saw at the coon hunt.

"He was wearing camouflage from head to toe," Wood said. "I couldn't shake it off - couldn't sleep. I had to report it to the [Tennessee Bureau of Investigation]."

Wood says she reported what happened at the command station. Keep in mind, this was the day after Bobo disappeared.

"It played back in my mind. Something wasn't right. Something wasn't happening. I couldn't shake the feeling of what was wrong," Wood said.

Two months later, Wood says, the TBI called her back to sit with a sketch artist.

Channel 4 News interviewed Wood last month in connection with our investigation, and she said she is still haunted by the memory.

"I have that guilt every day. I should have protected Holly. I should have told her. I didn't have the courage to do it. I miss her. Everyone misses her," Wood said.

Meanwhile, attorney Luke Evans has filed a multi-count lawsuit against the state of Tennessee on behalf of his client, Shayne Austin, based on the immunity agreement he signed on March 6 - one week after the TBI announced indictments against the first man arrested in the case, Zach Adams.

On Tuesday, the TBI said a second man, Jason Autry, has also been indicted in Bobo's disappearance.

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District Attorney General Hansel McCadams said Wednesday he could not comment on whether his office plans to present charges against Shayne Austin to a grand jury in the Holly Bobo case.

The district’s attorney office is seeking dismissal of a complaint Austin’s attorney filed in Decatur County Chancery Court. The complaint states that prosecutors told Austin’s attorney they plan to indict Austin after nullifying an immunity agreement they had offered him in exchange for his cooperation in the investigation of Bobo’s kidnapping and murder.

“The grand jury is a separate body from Chancery Court,” McCadams said on Wednesday. “It is totally separate. When we plan to indict someone, it is a complete secret, and the first to know about it is the grand jury, then the person who is indicted. We are prohibited by law from saying who will be indicted.”

Austin’s attorney, Luke Evans, filed the complaint on April 1 asking the Chancery Court for a restraining order and temporary injunction to keep prosecutors from indicting Austin, according to court documents obtained by The Jackson Sun----------------Link to Document (Complaint Austin v TN): http://www.scribd.com/doc/221108680/Complaint-Austin-v-TN

whoever it was prob didnt come forward right away, then maybe LE was getting close,so they prob struck a deal, for withholding,or maybe LE wanted more physical evidence to backup the witness, or both scenarios

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A third defendant could face charges in the case after prosecutors revoked an immunity agreement that had been worked out for him.

The March 6 agreement granted Shayne Austin, 29, of Decatur County, immunity from various charges, including "all charges arising out of the disposal, destruction, burial, and/or concealment of Holly Bobo's deceased body," according to documents filed in Decatur County Chancery Court and posted online by The Jackson Sun, which first reported them.

The agreement was dependent on Bobo's body being recovered from the place where Austin said it was buried.

The immunity agreement also includes a provision to grant Austin immunity for drug-related criminal activity "not to include any drugs administered to Holly Lynn Bobo."

Bobo disappeared from her family's home near Parsons on the morning of April 13, 2011. Her brother told police that he saw a man dressed in camouflage leading her away into the woods. Since then, investigators and volunteers have scoured the woods and fields of the town of about 2,400 for clues. Investigators said Tuesday that they have not yet recovered Bobo's body.

Documents show Austin met with Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agents the same day the agreement was signed. Later that evening, Assistant District Attorney General Beth Boswell sent an email to Austin's attorney, Luke Evans, saying that Austin was not "truthful, candid, forthcoming or cooperative" and therefore "not compliant with the immunity agreement."

Austin filed a lawsuit on April 1 to force the state to grant him immunity. The lawsuit contends that he has complied with the terms of the agreement and that Austin waived his constitutional protections, including the right not to incriminate himself, to get immunity. It claims the government is in breach of contract for reneging on its obligations under the agreement.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Exclusive video highlights the checkered past of a man now at the center of the Holly Bobo murder case. Newschannel 5 obtained police car video showing the arrest of Shayne Austin during a traffic stop in Murfreesboro in 2009.

"He was stopped for DUI and it was his third violation," said Kyle Evans with the Murfreesboro Police Dept.

At the time he was a student at MTSU. A year later he was arrested again for wandering down a city street at 3:15 a.m. with a loaded 12-gauge shotgun.

"During his time here in Murfreesboro Austin had several run-ins with law enforcement," said Evans, who said it's no surprise to learn he may be involved now in the Holly Bobo case.

So far Zach Adams and Jason Autry are both charged with Bobo's murder. Austin-- believed to be childhood friends with the two suspects -- had been granted immunity if he could lead the TBI to Bobo's body. In fact, sources tell Newschannel5 a tip from Austin helped lead to a massive search of Adams' property back in February. No body was found. The immunity was revoked. And Austin could now face charges.